Category Archives: Goons

EVE: Off to war we go

Posted on August 3, 2017 by SynCaine

When Dear Leader speaks, especially for a war deployment, our numbers in local were great than local in Jita. Seems our ‘dead’ or ‘defeated’ alliance still has a little bit of life left in it… So we are off to … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons, MMO design | 6 Comments

Poor, dumb, and maybe corrupt

Posted on July 25, 2017 by SynCaine

Some high quality posting from Gevlon going on right now related to his favorite tinfoil hat: everything is corrupt! It starting with his theory that the only reason anyone works in the gaming industry is because they are corrupt and … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons, League of Legends, MMO design, Random, Rant, RMT, World of Warcraft | 13 Comments

EVE: Goons still winning

Posted on July 5, 2017 by SynCaine

As reported by CCP and written about at TAGN, despite Goons being ‘defeated’ during WWB, we are by far the most active alliance/region in terms of both mining and ratting, and it’s not even close. Delve alone is more active … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons, Uncategorized | 13 Comments

EVE: Fun over ISK/hr

Posted on May 19, 2017 by SynCaine

Having the super carrier to rat in has changed my perspective on a lot of things related to ISK, because when you have a tool that can fairly easily generate you 300m+ ISK an hour, most other ISK-making activities just … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons | 2 Comments

The Division, Grim Dawn, and mobile games

Posted on May 10, 2017 by SynCaine

A random collection of thoughts about games, here goes. The Division was free last weekend on Steam, and I played it for about an hour. It was… fine? Good graphics and setting, but I failed to really see the point … Continue reading →

Posted in Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, EVE Online, Goons, PvP, Random, Uncategorized | 11 Comments

EVE: CCP Falcon is running a thousand ratting bots himself, proof inside!

Posted on April 27, 2017 by SynCaine

Look, more alternative facts that Goons are dead. So dead we are the most economically active alliance in the game. The RMT Empire is alive and well, everyone to the party yacht while our hordes of bots get us unassailably … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons, MMO design, Rant | 3 Comments

EVE: Escalations perfectly compliment normal ratting

Posted on April 24, 2017 by SynCaine

As previously mentioned, I went out and purchased a Rattlesnake battleship to run the 10/10 Escalations I sometimes get from running sites in my Super Carrier. The Rattlesnake + fit cost me just under 3 billion, and I was lucky … Continue reading →

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Shocking twist, rambling lunatic is ignored by the sane

Posted on April 21, 2017 by SynCaine

Like most his (sane) readers, I find Gevlon’s blog a great source of comedy. His tinfoil-based discussions, his refusal to accept reality, and the insane ways he twists himself around to get to his viewpoint are all more often than … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, EVE Online, Goons, League of Legends, MMO design, Rant, RMT | 7 Comments

Early April gaming update

Posted on April 4, 2017 by SynCaine

Games I’m playing update. The most notable item is our Clash of Clans… clan is on a ten war winning streak, which I believe is our longest since the change to war matching to match win streak clans with others … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, EVE Online, Goons, Inquisition Clan, Random, The Elder Scrolls Online | 14 Comments

EVE – One small step for EVE, one giant leap for MMO-kind

Posted on March 30, 2017 by SynCaine

Over at TAGN, he has a post about the upcoming changes to moon mining. In short, the activity is going from a mostly automated process involving structures processing resources to one that requires a group effort to collect the rewards. … Continue reading →

Posted in crafting, EVE Online, Goons, MMO design, The Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft | 6 Comments